“Junkie” is pretty much understood to be a narcotic/heroin user, not hallucinogenics. Regardless, decades of prohibition policies have proven your opinion isn’t a valid both-sides argument, but patently incorrect. This is supported by many professional opinions from medical doctors, psychologists, sociologists, economists, etc. looking at the impacts of strict criminal penalties for drug use to both the individual and their communities.

"Bacon is tasty" and "everyone different from me should be executed" are technically both just opinions so that means they're the same, right?

It's not an opinion, your assertion that "junkie" refers to anyone who has used drugs is just objectively WRONG.

And thinking you are somehow educating the rest of us is STUPID, since you were flatly wrong from your initial assertion.

You are too dumb to understand any of this, but the rest of us do.

And we're laughing AT you, MAGA.

Your flame war game is fucking weak... peasant

Okey dokey

There is not a single country where every drug is "allowed," wtf are you talking about?

This is such "I'm 17 and grew up in a conservative household" energy. How did you even end up on Lemmy?

I have a rather interesting view on the matter. Typically even my in-group doesn’t agree with me on this. Yet I think all drugs should be legal. Access to drugs should be strictly regulated (imo), but easy. Therapists should be able to obtain license to administer psychedelics. There should be therapeutic centers specializing in use of psilocybin, ketamine, and MDMA. There should be other types of therapeutic centers where you can get access to methamphetamine, opioids, and other drugs—as prescribed necessary for addiction treatment. There should be places to buy recreational drugs like cannabis.

Everything has a place, in my view. Banning something outright is naive, creating more problems in the long run. If you swap from enforcement of prohibition to a more utilitarian approach, you can get a lot more done. That doesn’t mean you give drugs away and create addicts. It means you be a grown up and stop acting like everything is the boogie man, while also acting like anyone who touches it has caught cooties.

People do a pretty good job policing themselves when the system is established in a manner to empower them with good choices. It’s the same idea as the panopticon, as old as Jeremy Bentham, but in reverse. People aren’t going to go get their free meth when culturally it’s known to be for addicts who are at a bad place in life. People who do just want free meth are now surrounded by psychologists who can help.